Berlin Wall - Hyde Park, NY
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LadyKarine
N 41° 46.098 W 073° 56.055
18T E 588582 N 4624600
A section of the Berlin Wall is on display in the Freedom Court at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Historic Site.
Waymark Code: WMYVW2
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/29/2018
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The sign says: «The figure of the man and woman you were cut from a larger section of the Berlin wall. The section depicted above is located at the Winston Churchill memorial and library in Fulton, Missouri. Bothworks, the one here in Hyde park and the companion piece in Fulton, were created by Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill.»
Dedicated May 14, 1994
"The East German transition government gave Sandys eight wall panels to create a sculpture for the Churchill Memorial."
Using the cutout pieces of the Berlin Wall that Edwina had carefully saved from her Breakthrough sculpture, she created a new sculpture BreakFree for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. The two 12 foot figures of Man and Woman are installed at FDR’s home in the Hudson Valley. The sculpture shows the figures of a man and a woman emerging from symbolic, giant barbed wire, expressing Man’s irresistible quest for freedom. Appropriately, this sculpture stands on a podium inscribed around the base with Roosevelt’s ‘Four Freedoms’.
Name of the revolution that the waymark is related to:
Cold War
Adress of the monument:
Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
Hyde Park, NY
What was the role of this site in revolution?:
N/A
Link that comprove that role: [Web Link]
When was this memorial placed?: 05/14/1994
Who placed this monument?: Edwina Sandys
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